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NASA spent more than double what it originally reported on taxpayer-funded union time — where federal employees perform union-related duties while being paid by the government — last year ...
All-electric, autonomous aircraft developer Wisk Aero announced a fresh five-year research partnership with NASA to establish advanced air mobility standards to eventually introduce autonomous ...
An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from ...
The spacewalk lasted about 6.5 hours, according to NASA. Two NASA astronauts have completed a spacewalk, stepping outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S ...
As NASA ramps up plans to return to the moon and, eventually, Mars, it is moving forward with plans to shrink its workforce by incentivizing employees to leave government. The space agency is ...
The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a reduction that would halt the launch of a high-tech space telescope and ...
Tech billionaire and White House adviser Elon Musk called the Trump administration’s reported plans to drastically reduce NASA funding “troubling” in a Friday social media post.
NASA could see a 20 percent cut to its overall 2026 budget, with funding for its science division slashed in half, if a preliminary budget proposal from the White House is enacted. The cuts would ...
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur and astronaut and President Donald Trump’s choice to become the next NASA administrator, said Wednesday that despite his ties to Elon Musk’s SpaceX ...
By Kenneth Chang NASA will prioritize sending American astronauts to Mars, President Trump’s nominee to lead the space agency told a Senate committee on Wednesday. That led to prickly exchanges ...
NASA may consolidate work in some regional offices, shifting thousands of jobs, but has no plans for massive layoffs or the elimination of major departments, acting administrator Janet Petro said ...
A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx ...